Focus on the Global South in cooperation with the MA in International Development Studies Programme of the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand will launch a 15-day international course on Globalisation, Social Justice and Civil...
Read MoreBy Herbert Docena MANILA – ON THE VERY DAY WHEN FILIPINOS were to mark the 20th anniversary of the ‘People Power’ uprising which ended Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship, Marcos-style dictatorship sprang a...
Read More[Français] By Walden Bello* “An Army of the People” That something interesting and unusual is taking place in Venezuela first really struck me when, in response to a sarcastic comment about an anti-war meeting of the 2006...
Read MoreDrop All Charges Against Anti-WTO Political Prisoners in HK!Apology from HK Police and Government on Brutality Against the DemonstratorsDerail the World Trade Organisation!Released during the “Regional Trade Strategy...
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By Joseph Purugganan
30 protestors, most of them Filipinos, entered the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok on Thursday, March. 2, to demand the lifting of the State of National Emergency decree (Presidential Proclamation 1017).
In a meeting with Ambassador Antonio Rodriguez, the protesters also urged the Philippine envoy and Embassy staff “to join us in demanding that [Gloria Macapagal Arroyo] vacate the presidency as soon as possible. “We ask you and your staff,” the letter continued, “to uphold the integrity of the foreign service and declare your loyalty to the Republic instead of a person who has usurped power through illegal means.”
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In recent years, the popular struggles against neo-liberalism and imperialism in the Americas and in other parts of the World have generated a crisis of legitimacy for the neo-liberal system and its institutions. The most...
Read MoreManila, February 25, 2006 | Before Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced Proclamation 1017, which put the country under a state of national emergency, a spate of unsolved killings and other human rights violations of legal political...
Read MoreHerbert Docena delivers the keynote address at the world Tribunal On Iraq. Watch it on freespeech.org >>>
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The protest rally of over 5,000 people spearheaded by Laban ng Masa was violently dispersed today along Edsa, the site of the People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos exactly 20 years today.
The protestors, who assembled earlier in Quezon City were en route to join others who have assembled at the people power monument in EDSA, when they were block by around 200 riot policemen armed with truncheons, water cannons and long firearms.
Laban ng Masa leaders Francisco Nemenzo (former President of the University of the Philippines), Professor Randy David, and several members of the House of Representatives including Rep. Riza Hontiveros-Baraquel, Mario Aguja of Akbayan Citizens Action Party, and Rep. Renato Magtubo of Partido ng Manggagawa were in front negotiating with the police when the violence erupted. The protestors were pushed back with the use of truncheons and water cannons. Some protestors fought back by throwing rocks amidst calls from fellow protestors for restraint.
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by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Feb. 23, 2006 (IPS/GIN) — She was pregnant with her first child, and a woman on the run. She was on a "wanted list" for her human rights campaigns. She had little choice but to go...
Read MoreRegional Trade Strategy MeetingThe Battle of Hong Kong ContinuesFebruary 28 March 1, 2006Bangkok, ThailandAt the 6th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization last December 2005,the big trading superpowers with the help...
Read More[English] Por Walden Bello y Mary Lou Malig El sexto Foro Social Mundial, celebrado en Caracas, Venezuela, ha sido el nuevo impulso que necesitaba esta reunión anual de la sociedad civil mundial. El FSM había recibido críticas,...
Read MoreLe trio inédit constitué par les Etats-Unis, l’Union européenne et Pascal Lamy a réussi à imposer aux pays en voie de développement d’accepter la déclaration ministérielle qui enferme le développement potentiel des pays du sud.
Read More[english]Contra la Guerra y las Ocupaciones: ¡No más guerras, la paz es la única solución! Demandamos la inmediata e incondicional retirada de las tropas extranjeras de Irak y el fin de la privatización de sus...
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